Steam Downtime Discussion Thread

[I Have A Name]

Ok ladies:
all servers are now boot into the online mode. Some need more time - some needs lesser...

the 10 AM update just tell us, that on 10 AM EVERY server will working fine - friends or community servery are OF COURSE smaller than download-servers or game servers.
So: OF COURSE, the (for example) game and/or downloadservers need more time!



You DO realize that's exactly what we thought an hour ago?

[djsatane]

some things were up for short time, now its back down. This is now 6 hours mainteance.

[santolman]

no problem!

[Malk]

Guess Steam cloud and the friends list is the same server?
I cant play Civ V before Cloud is back up :/

[peachmelba]

Denmark is also down

[Sierra Oscar]

I'm offline. Steam Cloud down, can't play mw2, friends list down.
WTF??

Steam is down for maintenance. The revised completion time for that maintenance is 10AM PDT - another 20 minutes away.

[Gom3r]

CIS (inluding Russia) off

[Ghost-Ryder]

Steam was up but IWnet was down
now Steam down again

[attra]

iam in the uk and its still not back up for me yet

[hewl]

I think you need to train your interpretation skill. They never said it will down for exactly 4hours.

[ktzluke8]

wow lol 2 hours overtime

[Makige]

Nothing for Russia. Not online =(

[McMasterGold]

Nothing works yet. No shop, no games, no community, nothing.

I can't believe we support Valve so much by buying games from Steam, and we don't even have access to them.

Waiting since I returned from school to play a game. And now there's a two-hour delay. How disappointing.

[epsylon_Z1]

don't be angry , relax

[EyeOfTheHawks]

Its maintenance, why dont people understand that?

Just have some patience, im sure you can do without video games for a few hours.

Still off in Canada (Ontario) aswell though

[h00wdih00w]

Still no connection here. (The Netherlands)

[Chubz123]

Just more of the same.

I sometimes wonder why I even bother with this service any longer. If not for Team Fortress 2, I'd take my business elsewhere in a heartbeat.

[cooldreng15]

Either in denmark -.-

[santolman]

no problem.

how do you waist somebody's day?

[Daviex94]

Can anyone tell me When in Italy RE UP all?

[SubGrizzly]

This is freaking ridiculous. Valve needs to learn to plan. It's a dumb day to do this, a dumb time to do this, and they can't even plan the amount of time it's going to take.

I love this freaking crap. You pay for a game, but can't use it because they've elected not to make it available. The 4 hours was pushing it, but it's going to be 6 hours, and then some more because it will take time for the 2.5mil + users to connect. We'll probably knock steam down again.

[Neeko_Shinigami]

East Coast USA - I was up for about 10 minutes, now completely down again. *sigh* Patience is a virtue... too bad I have to leave in 20 minutes.

[djsatane]

We know the revised completion time was posted, but that was revised from a revised time hour earlier, which basically means nothing at this point since they can just keep revising it every hour.

[NiloCP]

You don't make sense. You should be thanking them on how many hours of entertainment they've provided to you, not how many hours you have wasted yourself.

[cooldreng15]

Still down in denmark.. -.-

[crash.cz]

I have ♥♥♥♥ing hat into my TF 2 account for those two hours.

[Coraline Jones]

Right now on the Steam Stats page, it says "0 users online". Europe must be furious because this is getting very close to their peak gameplay time.

[Gen Pun]

Downtime issues? I'm just glad it's not just my pc or me!

:)

[john479]

Still nothing for the UK :( Really annoying

[Method320]

I'm connecte....not sur.....ho...lon..itllas....

-connection lost-

[Furious_]

still nothing in Norway :(

[bayjoeke]

i'm up, just got into friends list! belgium

[TheBranDingo]

It sure would be nice if status updates for the servers could somehow be integrated into steam.

[Ghost-Ryder]

Bad day for this.
Holiday in the USA

[bradlewis]

Mines going up and down like a yo-yo

[I Have A Name]

Its maintenance, why dont people understand that?

Just have some patience, im sure you can do without video games for a few hours.

This is looking to be a 6 hour downtime, and it isn't even about the video games in some cases. Steam is a big platform that a lot of people use. In downtime standards, I'm sure a lot of people would agree that 6 hours is unacceptable. What if GMail went completely down for 6 hours?

[TurkeySandwhich]

LOL @ people having hissy fits here.

[Pakundo]

Still nothing in Israel...

[D.Trickster]

WOOOOO! Back online in Spain! :D

[Joshface]

YES FIXED! THANKS VALVE I LOVE YOU REALLY!

[OatmealMan]

Germany is offline.
Wtf.

[agro36]

I think you need to train your interpretation skill. They never said it will down for exactly 4hours.

This it what they wrote.

Beginning at 4:00 am Pacific time Monday October 11th, we will be performing software maintenance on the Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last four hours at most, putting the end of the window at 8:00 am Pacific time.


See, they say 4 hours, this is 6 hours.

[ktzluke8]

lol, worst time slot for me
7pm to 1 am

haha
wasted my whole night

[Grunt7684]

oooooooooooooh its up M&B Warband, here I come!!! :D

[cooldreng15]

Friends up now here :D

[Kaixx]

This is freaking ridiculous. Valve needs to learn to plan. It's a dumb day to do this, a dumb time to do this, and they can't even plan the amount of time it's going to take.4 AM start their time is a DUMB TIME to do this? REALLY?

[HandySmoker]

Online! [Russia]

[Method320]

K, seems stable and online.

[alfie211]

It's up for me

[rqf]

good in france online

[canada2005]

Its Thanksgiving (holiday) in Canada. Get this fixed.

[real4xor]

^^ Well, I had fun finishing some older singleplayer games.

:/ but uhm... now I`ve seen those credits roll, I would like to start up another multiplayer massacre game again.

hope the works finished a little sooner than anticipated.

edit: 0.o omg, it works! it works!!! already :D lol.

[EyeOfTheHawks]

Im up now (Ontario)

[Furious_]

ITS NOT UP :((((

[cooolwebeur]

online CH

[Pakundo]

Friends online in Israel, no steam cloud yet.

[Leegroy]

still offline in eastern US. anyone else?

[Bongu]

Everything up for me, even steam cloud + friendlist country=germany.

[Kofeiini]

UP IN FINLAND! I LOVE YA

[djsatane]

I am able to login into steam community on the site, so things are improving.

[the.unknown.98]

just got online here in the UK

[HandySmoker]

my German friends online as well

[Kaixx]

This is looking to be a 6 hour downtime, and it isn't even about the video games in some cases. Steam is a big platform that a lot of people use. In downtime standards, I'm sure a lot of people would agree that 6 hours is unacceptable. What if GMail went completely down for 6 hours?It's the internet. You should be expecting downtime for these things.

Live with it.

[crash.cz]

Online in Czech Republic.
http://chzbobshouseofvideogames.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/72d7d898-e48a-4e92-a840-ee3b16b7ee7e.jpg
Now I want that hat for it!

[StrikeSkillz]

offline in finland

nvm, online :D

[agro36]

I think you need to train your interpretation skill. They never said it will down for exactly 4hours.

Beginning at 4:00 am Pacific time Monday October 11th, we will be performing software maintenance on the Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last four hours at most, putting the end of the window at 8:00 am Pacific time.


gg.

[lxhetagyrum]

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!!!

(gasp)

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT !!!!!!!!!!!!

[I Have A Name]

still offline in eastern US. anyone else?

East Coast, same boat.

[e_kro]

Turkey is still offline and i am very pissed off...

[dubbs]

up for me in UK... but for how long xD

[Beginner]

Russia online!

[Sierra Oscar]

Back up and running in Ireland. ;)

[Fair Warning]

my friendlist.. works,
but only shows 5 friends.. lol

[Furious_]

OFFLINE IN NORWAY. ♥♥♥♥ i think they forgot about us XD

[RainingMetal]

Announcer says "Overtime!"

[SubGrizzly]

Back up finally.

I be in Germany mon.

[Nickname P]

Online in Germany

[wayne83]

shop, news online in germany

[StrikeSkillz]

can't find servers on css tho, feels good men.

[linksdeity]

Up here, Michigan

[bishey3]

finally online in Turkey

[MasterPlaster]

still offline for me in UK

EDIT: its online

[Furious_]

YES UP IN NORWAY WOOOO L4D HERE ICOME :D

[Saint Warrior]

Website shop is online and going. Just purchased COD4:Modern Warfare from there. STEAM application shows no connection though and new game does not appear in library game list. Does anybody know how could I refresh that list to make a newly purchased game available for install? Or it is not possible during maintenance time? Thanks.

[RangersFC]

Up in UK.

[DKill3r]

Back online in Germany.:)

[bayjoeke]

yaaaaaaaaaaay gaylord tag team between steam and iwnet, Steam is up and now it's "connecting to IWnet..."

[Leegroy]

East Coast, same boat.

excellent. nothing i am doing wrong then.

[QuackPot]

Online here in Scotland.

[|MλRCO|]

Maxico up :)

[Mithoron]

Atlanta, GA up...

[qu3x^]

Online [Austria] also see my [UK] and [HU] friends :>

[wurrwurr]

HELL YEAH IT'S UP!
Now some tf2.

[rDigital]

Just got back online 12:49 pm EST in Ohio : )

[sezzor]

Swden up, still cant connect to Ivnet tho

[damien c]

It's great this I pay for a game and then have a 3rd party application that should not be required to play the game, tell me I cannot play it because Steam is currently down for maintenance.

When will game developers realise that Steam is not worth it and stop making games a Steam exclusive so that they can dictate when, and when we cannot play our games all because VALVE say we will give x amount of money if you make the game require our POS.

In the UK and still down for me can't play any of my games that require steam, not even single player games work including Half Life 2.

Thank's Valve for showing how we should all trust you when you cannot even get your server's up and running in the time you say it will take!

[Gibsus]

Washington D.C., still down for me.

[Espio0]

still waiting here in belgium :rolleyes:

[e_kro]

TURKEY IS ONLINEEEEEE OMG OMG OMG NOM NOM NOM

[I Have A Name]

excellent. nothing i am doing wrong then.

I take it back, just got online.

And with that, I bid you all adieu.

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]

Back up in PA (East Coast USA)

[Red_warning]

I'm in, no friends online though

[epsylon_Z1]

Hungary online

[McMasterGold]

Southeastern Europe now fully working!

[Malk]

Guys relax, Servers of this kind NEED maintanance from time to time, just be glad that they bother maintaining them ensuring a network which is up and working 99% of the time.

and to all those asking about when its up again it was posted a few min ago:


Steam is down for maintenance. The revised completion time for that maintenance is 10AM PDT - another 20 minutes away.

[jerome2710]

Still waiting in The Netherland...
Friends are OK but stil no IWNet.

Having diner now, hoping that this little trust won't vanish...

[Cheppa]

Finland online.

[Saint Warrior]

OK, problem is solved, STEAM application is up and working.

[Ayla]

Freezing to death here ... ROMANIA.

[Leegroy]

I take it back, just got online.

And with that, I bid you all adieu.

aha, as have i. enjoy your gaming

[TheBranDingo]

West coast up :)

[Slayer00]

Still offline in Finland.

EDIT: Online now after restarted Steam

[clickey]

up for me now.. in UK :P

[wurrwurr]

In the UK and still down for me can't play any of my games that require steam, not even single player games work including Half Life 2.
There is offline mode, you know.

[Nublich]

Perth, Aus - Down (then again u can never tell in this place)

[CrazyJack]

Still down in South Africa.

[Kubbica]

Poland online

[Raz0R964]

Italy online

[jack_wade]

Spain online.

[Kanakotka]

Who cares? Just get a life outside steam and do something else for a change. Maintenances take time, stop crying about it.

We all would very much like to have Steam up, but crying about it on the forums doesn't matter much, does it?

[damien c]

There is offline mode, you know.

To bad it says you must be online to play this game then isnt it!

Friend's list is up but cannot play games still nice work VALVE!!!!!!!!

[kraelen]

VALVE TIME (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time)

Accept it. Where is episode 3?

[cooolwebeur]

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[SR69MMJC]

Russia online.

Restart Steam!

[ctb]

Back online after restart. :)

Hertfordshire, England.

[roB:de]

online (germany)

[Sceptr]

UK online but now IWNet seems to be down, lol.

[rqf]

But can't connect to IW.NET for CODMW2

[OatmealMan]

Germany is back in business.

[Espio0]

just got back online!

[Wampyre]

here are 2 versions about this downtime:

1)
I heard Big PAPA (Gabe) dissapeared with pretty big cake in his hand, this is the reason, why steam will not never ever more work. Valve workers are stealing things in offices right now. So what will do? Steam forums will be off soon too. What disaster happend?

2)
Valve just finished and uploading right now HL2 - Episode Tree (yea, not three, but tree! They just changed the name by long work on it and a lot of programers got firmly established in their offices xD) and we all will get it for free, cos we are awesome customers.

:-)

[damien c]

But can't connect to IW.NET for CODMW2

same.

[crash.cz]

Czech Republic: Can´t go in my inventory... WTF?

[roB:de]

UK online but now IWNet seems to be down, lol.

But can't connect to IW.NET for CODMW2

may some game-servers are not only yet.. give'em some minutes... 3 (official) minutes left...


game & download - servers needs a lil bit longer to boot up

[broodlapin]

still offline north america

[NeWx]

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

View all of the top 0 most-played games ... x'D

[thefarside]

Sweden = go.

[jerome2710]

Moment of truth...

[raviool]

Atleast I can go to SF now.

[DeadMouse]

at least keep the damn things online!

[Sceptr]

may some game-servers are not only yet.. give'em some minutes... 3 (official) minutes left...


game & download - servers needs a lil bit longer to boot up

Exciting innit, lol.

[wilom222]

still down here in canada,maybe they...

EDIT ITS UP!

[roB:de]

Exciting innit, lol.

just the truth ;)

[qhnzone]

up in poland, eu

[preytec]

why do we need steam to play online, i remember it wasn't too long ago that games didn't need steam. they had a game server search in them. so why can't our games be like that? another thing that steam does is the updates, they release them on friday and then go home and the public have to put up with the doggy update till it's fixed on the monday and updated that night. oo plus if you do get the update and it's ok. well the servers have to rebooted and a lot of the servers are remote hosted and guess what? they won't be back till monday too. so we lose a lot of the servers has well. i just don't see the need for steam. it'd be different if steam was an os and ran your pc at all most full power just for games, a kind of dual boot system and took out the need for windows all together. but it's just a store that blackmails us into viewing their "great deals of the week" or else we can't load up or play online. can anyone tell me why do we need steam? apart from "coz we do or we can't play online"

[cooldreng15]

Cant connect to Mw2 (IWNet..) ingame :(

[jerome2710]

Cant connect to Mw2 (IWNet..) ingame :(

+1...
Lame guys... Saying they need another hour and even that isn't enough!

[capreppy]

Well, Steam is up, but IW is still down. Can anyone provide an update?

[Cold Canuck]

North America is still out.

[TheBranDingo]

North America is still out.

West Coast is up.

[kakha_k]

Ohh my steam is up at finally!

[NonGravityGun]

What about IWnet in MW2 guys? Thats down for me and many others.

[ClaymoreBR]

Steam came back up here in Brazil 10 minutes ago. I've just bought those Killing Floor DLCs. =D

[sangesland]

norway is up, but no invetory :(

[damien c]

Well, Steam is up, but IW is still down. Can anyone provide an update?

Yeah forget about gaming today and forget about being able to play Black Op's if this is anything to go by.

Valve are such a big company but they cannot even get there maintenance done in 4+ hour's just show's how much of a joke they are.

Yes as you can tell I don't like Steam but I am forced to use to play games, only to have them dictate to me when and when I cannot play my games.

[jerome2710]

Pff, I'm out.

[ohmk]

Yeah forget about gaming today and forget about being able to play Black Op's if this is anything to go by.

Valve are such a big company but they cannot even get there maintenance done in 4+ hour's just show's how much of a joke they are.

Yes as you can tell I don't like Steam but I am forced to use to play games, only to have them dictate to me when and when I cannot play my games.

We get it, you hate valve, you think they're a joke, blah blah blah blah whine whine whine. Your opinion has been noted. Repeatedly.

[TheBranDingo]

We get it, you hate valve, you think they're a joke, blah blah blah blah whine whine whine. Your opinion has been noted. Repeatedly.

Congrats on first post :)

[edge67]

He has a point.......never ever have this with xfire.....

[biltong]

South africa back up, and my steam nearly crashed as it connected :D

[Sierra Oscar]

He has a point.......never ever have this with xfire.....

To be fair, Steam is quite different from Xfire in many ways.

[slk601]

Ahhh, so THIS is why my steam refuses to start up online.

Ok, I figured I had steam issues. :)

When can we play again ???? it said: conecting IWNet ?????
What is that ?:mad:

[harharharharhar]

steam is up but no tf2 loadout

[damien c]

We get it, you hate valve, you think they're a joke, blah blah blah blah whine whine whine. Your opinion has been noted. Repeatedly.


Lol considering this is your 1st post good way to make a impression!!!

Yes I DETEST STEAM, and will continue to say it I DETEST STEAM I DETEST STEAM I DETEST STEAM! Fact is just because that is my opinion does not mean it is not the same for other's and not true now does it!

[roB:de]

He has a point.......never ever have this with xfire.....

ang again some1, who compares apples with oranges...

this isnt the right way, kid. Its ridiclious to compare steam with xfire...

[edge67]

To be fair, Steam is quite different from Xfire in many ways.


Yes i agree with you there.....but my point being is it is never down...updates for sure..but never down.

[cooldreng15]

When can we play again ???? it said: conecting IWNet ?????
What is that ?:mad:

yep we're waiting ...

[damien c]

ang again some1, who compares apples with oranges...

this isnt the right way, kid. Its ridiclious to compare steam with xfire...

True they both do similar thing's but for communicating and video recording Xfire is better, for something that does the same minus Video and also allows you to buy games then Steam is better.

[ohmk]

Lol considering this is your 1st post good way to make a impression!!!

Yes I DETEST STEAM, and will continue to say it I DETEST STEAM I DETEST STEAM I DETEST STEAM! Fact is just because that is my opinion does not mean it is not the same for other's and not true now does it!

I hardly think my first post makes nearly as much a damning impression as your repeated cries to play games because of an extended downtime.

All I'm saying is yeah, we know how you feel. Now kindly shut up so I can read something of use on here, aka, when IWNet comes back up.

[The Toony]

Still not as bad as the great Turbine MMORPG outage of 08 where every game was down for like 24 hours.

Least I can get in community chats now. Just can't play games.

[Cold Canuck]

xfire is tiny compared to STEAM.

Some leeway should be given especially when this sort of outage is so rare...do you folks not remember WON?

[TheBranDingo]

Still not as bad as the great Turbine MMORPG outage of 08 where every game was down for like 24 hours.

Least I can get in community chats now. Just can't play games.

Were you around for the L4D2 launch?

[deftones3124]

anyone know when iwnet is gonna stop acting like a b****?

[roB:de]

True they both do similar thing's but for communicating and video recording Xfire is better, for something that does the same minus Video and also allows you to buy games then Steam is better.

And thats WRONG, again!
First: I accept your opinion. Ok? Ok!

But: you talking sh.it - like the other guy...

xfire would be compareable with MAYBE HLSW... and thats all...

steam was the first - is the biggest - and most commercial gaming-client ever..... its not only a "server-video-blah-whatever" client.
Its a all-in-one program.. so - and this is 100 percent FACT: you CANT compare them. Dont take them both into ONE sentence.
Its - and i think the most ppl will agree with me -> RIDICULOUS!

[SierraSonic]

This downtime prevented me from getting the killing floor expansions... :(

[epsylon_Z1]

*snip*

posts 2
rep 3

:rolleyes:

edit
We bounced once as Steam was coming up just after 0900 PDT, as we found a bug which would have prevented us from sustaining the day's normal load. After fixing that, we restarted Stem and we're up to our normal user load for this time of day.

I believe this to be the last visible, negative effect of our server upgrade work. I'm sorry the downtime took a bit longer than we had originally estimated.

[manolache33]

STEAM UP IN ROMANIA :)

[damien c]

xfire is tiny compared to STEAM.

Some leeway should be given especially when this sort of outage is so rare...do you folks not remember WON?

RARE! LMAO I have not seen something so funny in about a week Steam is up and down like a ♥♥♥♥♥s draws for me every day, and it has nothing to do with my pc or my broadband as I am on probably one of the fastest connection's and most reliable in the UK.

[Sierra Oscar]

RARE! LMAO I have not seen something so funny in about a week Steam is up and down like a ♥♥♥♥♥s draws for me every day, and it has nothing to do with my pc or my broadband as I am on probably one of the fastest connection's and most reliable in the UK.

You should contact support - because it certainly is not up and down like a yo-yo every day for the vast vast majority of Steam users, making me think it is something on your end.

Unless of course you are exaggerating fantastically.

[TheBranDingo]

RARE! LMAO I have not seen something so funny in about a week Steam is up and down like a ♥♥♥♥♥s draws for me every day, and it has nothing to do with my pc or my broadband as I am on probably one of the fastest connection's and most reliable in the UK.

I'm consistently connected. Steam goes down for me just during maintenance.

EDIT: Mod Ninja'd.

[roB:de]

I'm consistently connected. Steam goes down for me just during maintenance.

EDIT: Mod Ninja'd.

same here...
cant confirm the up & downs...

/edit
damien is still writin' crap.. so he isnt seriously

[ohmk]

IWNet is up.

[dave75111]

edit - yay IWNet is back at last \o/

[cooldreng15]

edit - yay IWNet is back at last \o/
Ohh yes :D

[sukime101]

TF2 still down

[The Toony]

Were you around for the L4D2 launch?

Didn't have L4D2 then.

[crash.cz]

COME ON, HOW THE HELL WE WILL WAIT ON TF 2???

[The Toony]

TF2 still down

It's up for me but sound doesn't work and no load out. Others seem to be fine, though. I did get killed by a sniper using a shiv. So it's apparently luck based now. You may or may not have connectivity. If not, you're vanilla.

[jENNi]

TF2 item/trading server up, thanks. :)

[crash.cz]

TF2 item/trading server up, thanks. :)

Stop make fun of it. Its still down :/

[roB:de]

Stop make fun of it. Its still down :/

steam isnt using only one server for trading, items & whatever... there are more.. so may jENNI is on the right one and now the lucky one ;)

[jENNi]

Stop make fun of it. Its still down :/

Hahhah, ment to write "please". I don't have it either. :P

[crash.cz]

Damn. Im come from work, and downtime start. Waiting almost seven hours, now it seem almost everything works, but only thing I need is trading system is off for me. Jesus. Valve really should give players some kind of sorry rewards. Srsly.

[jENNi]

Damn. Im come from work, and downtime start. Waiting almost seven hours, now it seem almost everything works, but only thing I need is trading system is off for me. Jesus. Valve really should give players some kind of sorry rewards. Srsly.

This.

[DiSTuRbEdofX]

Damn. Im come from work, and downtime start. Waiting almost seven hours, now it seem almost everything works, but only thing I need is trading system is off for me. Jesus. Valve really should give players some kind of sorry rewards. Srsly.

No, they warned you several days in advanced.

[crash.cz]

No, they warned you several days in advanced.

They warned me this will take a lot more than they said?

[sukime101]

yay
7 hours now

[warkris2]

im trying to install steam but no luck. it cant connect to server

[wardywolf]

l4d2 keeps closing :((

[MEGAFATBOY]

I don't have anything back yet, in terms of TF2, Canada...

[crash.cz]

Damn, STILL backpack STILL not working. COME ON!

[Kaixx]

They should give you sorry rewards for fixing things which will then give us a better experience with it?

Cry some more, people.

[sukime101]

Well at least i can wait watching Brazil's soccer team friendly
GL to you

[DiDix1]

Can't seem to log into Steam... It's just showing "Connecting: Steam account ******" left it at this for nearly 30min now and nothing changing. Tried rebooting and everything but nothing seems to help.
:(

[Reina]

True they both do similar thing's but for communicating and video recording Xfire is better, for something that does the same minus Video and also allows you to buy games then Steam is better.

Xfire has a game store too. :P

[Helmut_AUT]

Ya know guys, I really tried to give Steam a second chance after my initial horrible experience with Red Orchestra (that was the game where they tried a new approach to third-party game content and .ncf storage drivers which would fail to load... resulting in repeated problems launching the game for the first months).

Okay, so I want to give it another chance, and buy Just Cause 2. It arrived today. The initial steam client setup is slow and lots of updates filter down, so only after 10 or 15 minutes can I actually start installing. And then of course I couldn't activate it for multiple hours because the Servers are "down for maintainance". So I'm wasting my careful kept-clear gaming evening, with the GF not at home and no neighbours complaining, I waste this precious time not playing but looking at a website telling me the status of the Steam server (by now, I have installed the game, though).

While I realize this was a unlucky coincidence, it simple yet again reinforces my opinion that my gaming time is too precious to be put under the command of a big multinational company and server infrastructure.

I appreciate the idea to announce downtimes in advance and I see they are trying to be transparent with it, but really - nothing is more annoying to my feelings as a customer when a new game arrives (long gone release day, too) and the servers are down.

The irony of course is that there's a perfectly working cracked copy of JC2 out in the wild which doesn't bother the damn pirates even one minute with slow installation or activation problems.

[Slayer00]

Ya know guys, I really tried to give Steam a second chance after my initial horrible experience with Red Orchestra (that was the game where they tried a new approach to third-party game content and .ncf storage drivers which would fail to load... resulting in repeated problems launching the game for the first months).

Okay, so I want to give it another chance, and buy Just Cause 2. It arrived today. The initial steam client setup is slow and lots of updates filter down, so only after 10 or 15 minutes can I actually start installing. And then of course I couldn't activate it for multiple hours because the Servers are "down for maintainance". So I'm wasting my careful kept-clear gaming evening, with the GF not at home and no neighbours complaining, I waste this precious time not playing but looking at a website telling me the status of the Steam server (by now, I have installed the game, though).

While I realize this was a unlucky coincidence, it simple yet again reinforces my opinion that my gaming time is too precious to be put under the command of a big multinational company and server infrastructure.

I appreciate the idea to announce downtimes in advance and I see they are trying to be transparent with it, but really - nothing is more annoying to my feelings as a customer when a new game arrives (long gone release day, too) and the servers are down.

The irony of course is that there's a perfectly working cracked copy of JC2 out in the wild which doesn't bother the damn pirates even one minute with slow installation or activation problems.
You are very unlucky and you shouldn't really blame Valve/Steam.
This is the longest maintance I have ever seen and I have been activetly on Steam since 2006 and the usual downtime for maintances is 5-10 minutes and I think the longest before this 4+2 hours was 1 or maybe 2 hours but only seen one or two really long maintances myself.

And I think they warned about mainance on... Friday? Thursday? here on forums.
Not sure if on the Steam client/store/news pop-ups since I don't really keep looking at those and rarely get news pop-ups anymore lately.

[bundy1]

is the outage still going ? im getting "load out not available - could not connect to steam" in TF2... same for "shop for items"

[Lancars]

GG valve you broke something that didn't need fixing.

[Mangr0v3]

Well the iTFItems_440 API is back up (was down as of about an hour ago), so hopefully people can get their items again now.

[Soldierman1945]

I don't know if I still have some downtime or what, but I can't log into my Steam account from my computer. I've logged into it from other computers but it won't work on mine.
Anyone else having this problem?

[Hideous Chaos]

Everything is back up and running for me. :)

[Razor101]

Not really, as some don't require network, but Steam is completely based on it, so if the servers go down you loose all games for good.

Too bad it's not the end of the world, Stop whining.

[DustArma]

The downtime is officially over... still can't connect to steam/play my games

The ClientRegistry.blob in the root Steam directory (C:/Program Files/Steam/ClientRegisty.blob) is what is preventing connection.

Delete it and start steam, it forces steam to update and fix the file. I'm goin to play now

Good ol' ClientRegistry.blob, the root, and solution to all our steam related problems ;)

[MikeBlaszczak]

Please note that this thread is for the discussion of Steam-wide downtime. If you're having an issue with a specific feature of Steam not caused by downtime or maintenance, you're best off opening a thread in the appropriate area of the forum. The posts about TF2 item trading being inaccessible, for example, are off-topic here and belong in the TF2 trading forum (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1502994).

I've also taken the time to delete some off-topic posts.

[wynarator]

Could you please announce downtimes along with timezone? Is it always PST or what? Thanks.

[Deadly]

After the downtime I lost tf2 items that were traded for prior.

[sciss0rz]

Could you please announce downtimes along with timezone? Is it always PST or what? Thanks.

Yes, the times are Pacific Time. Normally the timezone is posted, the most recent one being an exception.

[MikeBlaszczak]

After the downtime I lost tf2 items that were traded for prior.

You'll need to contact support for help with such issues; we don't handle such problems in the forums.

[Razor101]

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Just click on the "Time Zones..." buttons on each line, and you'll be ready to go.

Example:

From PDT to GMT.

GMT = UTC

PDT = UTC-7

UTC-7 = GMT-7.

Where I live, with daylight savings, the zone is GMT+2 (normally GMT+1)

[WaRRioRTF]

After the maintenance, my Steam stopped having any connection. Router settings haven't changed at all during the maintenance. Any clue why this might of happened?

[Razor101]

Did you try the mentioned ClientRegistry.blob solution?

[WaRRioRTF]

Yeah i tried all the possible solutions people listed. (deleting clientregistry.blob, reinstalling steam, removing and then re-adding Steam to firewall exception list) and nothing helped, Except i got locked out of my own account because i forgot to back up the clientregistry.blob.

[BloodShed]

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Just click on the "Time Zones..." buttons on each line, and you'll be ready to go.

Example:

From PDT to GMT.

GMT = UTC

PDT = UTC-7

UTC-7 = GMT-7.

Where I live, with daylight savings, the zone is GMT+2 (normally GMT+1)


Or if you are using Windows 7 you can add a second clock.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8760/clipboard02wg.jpg

[Razor101]

Or if you are using Windows 7 you can add a second clock.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8760/clipboard02wg.jpg

Thank you for the tip fellow Dane ;)

[vempajor]

It is already started as I can see. :rolleyes:

[cloropad]

Hey, what's going on?

[vempajor]

Hey, what's going on?

It's down for me. :(

[dbostwick]

Down here

[pyrofraal]

Down time nOOOO!! I need my zombie slaying goodness

[Odyssey1319]

Down for me as well.

[Kaixx]

I had a feeling something was up considering they kept refusing payments from me.

[vempajor]

I dunno how but Steam is always down just when I wanna/could play.

[pyrofraal]

Anyone know how long its going to be?

[Fastson]

It's up for me now.

[Ja-Forces]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17836306&postcount=260

[vempajor]

It's up for me now.

You lucky.

[dbostwick]

Back up. <3

[pyrofraal]

Restarting steam...connecting to account....Yep back up see ya

[alex2142hp]

working fine for me

[picary]

According to this post:
Maintenance is done, downtime only lasted a few minutes as expected.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18026518&postcount=262


However, the Steam store still isnt loading:(


EDIT:
It is loading, but very very slowly

[Silicon Vampire]

I've got nothing but the forums.

Games list is working but nothing else in Steam, no friends or community.

[thompaine]

I still cannot launch Steam or ANY games because I can't get past the login screen. "Could not connect to the steam servers."

[LarsPantsOnFars]

I still cannot launch Steam or ANY games because I can't get past the login screen. "Could not connect to the steam servers."

Same here

[MikeBlaszczak]

Remember to check the downtime announcement thread (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18021540#post18021540). Even you, SV?

[thompaine]

Remember to check the downtime announcement thread (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18021540#post18021540). Even you, SV?

Yes, I checked the thread and it said the downtime was over, yet I can't launch Steam or any games. Hence why I'm posting here.

[MikeBlaszczak]

There's more than 1.5 million people online. If you're not on, I think it's a problem on your end.

[LarsPantsOnFars]

Fixed my issue thanks

[Tom Krasovac]

I can log into the client, but only the library will load, everything else is not accessible. Trying to buy something on the store, store won't load.

[Silicon Vampire]

Well Mike, friends seems to be coming back slowly as I would expect after a downtime but the store and community are still not accessible.

Usually when the downtime is over, at least the store is available right away with the community not far behind.

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and they just came back up... lol.